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Re: Why is wal_writer_delay limited to 10s?

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On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Something like wal_writer_delay=600s would be ideal, I can afford to
> loose a 10min of data, but can't afford to get a corrupted database
> after power loss.

What Postgres version? The WAL Writer will hibernate on Postgres 9.2+.
walwriter.c says:

/*
 * Number of do-nothing loops before lengthening the delay time, and the
 * multiplier to apply to WalWriterDelay when we do decide to hibernate.
 * (Perhaps these need to be configurable?)
 */
#define LOOPS_UNTIL_HIBERNATE		50
#define HIBERNATE_FACTOR			25


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Regards,
Peter Geoghegan


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